• Otium maintains a high pace of investment with €73 million deployed in H1 2025
• The holding company’s total assets now reach €1.7 billion
• Otium confirms its trajectory towards its 2030 ambition: becoming a leading European investment platform with €5 billion in assets
Paris, France, 16 July 2025 – Otium, a long-term investment holding company and a trusted partner to entrepreneurs, announces that it deployed €73 million during the first half of 2025 across a dozen significant transactions, as well as through continued support to its portfolio companies.
The growth of Otium’s holdings has brought the total value of its assets to €1.7 billion as of 30 June 2025.
In an environment marked by economic slowdown and caution across financial markets, Otium has sustained a high and strategically targeted pace of investment, confirming its position among the most active independent investors in France.
During the first half of 2025, Otium invested across its three areas of expertise in attractive and fast-growing sectors including technology, industry, healthcare, leisure, hospitality, real estate, and consumer goods.
Otium Investment—home to the group’s thematic funds and investment vehicles—has strengthened its presence across key sectors of the economy.
Otium notably co-led the €40 million fundraising round of VSORA, a French designer of next-generation AI inference chips whose unprecedented performance will enable it to begin production in 2025, with the ambition to secure a position among global leaders and contribute to Europe’s technological sovereignty in artificial intelligence.
This first half-year also saw the launch of Montyon Capital’s investment activities. The fund focuses on unconventional industrial projects with high return potential in sectors often overlooked by traditional investors. Supported by Otium since its inception, Montyon Capital now also benefits from the commitment of a leading Swiss industrial family investor.
With this backing, Montyon Capital completed a majority investment in Mathevon, a specialist in precision machining for critical industrial components, with the objective of accelerating its international leadership.
Montyon Capital, which is open to third-party investors, is targeting a closing on 31 December 2025.
A specialist in roll-up strategies, Otium Partners develops and scales leading groups in attractive sectors by creating and financing sector-specific acquisition platforms. Otium Partners supports platforms such as: Alfeor, a leading player in nuclear equipment, Novavet, a network of veterinary clinics, Comet Software, a provider of vertical-market software, Enosium Life Science, a specialist in scientific services for pharmaceutical companies, and Otelium, which acquires and operates budget hotels in dynamic urban areas.
Since 2022, Otium Partners has invested more than €100 million in equity and contributed to the development of six roll-up platforms, which together have carried out nearly 75 acquisitions.
This semester, Otium Partners completed 10 strategic acquisitions through its platforms, including Deltafluid, a specialist in fluid control systems, acquired by Alfeor, SAIGA Informatique, a software provider for educational institutions and Volume Software, a vertical ERP for packaging and the graphic industry, acquired by Comet Software
The first half of 2025 also marked the launch of Archipel, a new platform dedicated to consolidating independent accounting firms. It completed its first acquisition in April and aims to reach €150 million in revenue by 2029 through a combined strategy of organic growth and targeted acquisitions.
Otium Partners is also pursuing an international expansion strategy in key target markets, including the United Kingdom, Germany, and Italy, where several new platforms are currently under review.
Otium’s integrated startup studio—whose distinctive model offers comprehensive, hands-on support through significant upfront funding, long-term backing without exit pressure, an expert operational team, and a strong international network, deployed for founders selected for their ambition and execution capability—continued to expand.
Four new projects were launched in the first half of the year in the fields of education, wellbeing, and leisure, and 11 entrepreneurs are currently in residence.
Two major milestones marked the semester:
Ensol’s €14 million Series A round, with renowned venture and specialist funds, to accelerate its rollout of turnkey residential solar installations across France;
The official launch of Prosper, a real estate startup that acquires, renovates, sells, and manages listed historic châteaux as second homes, with the commercialisation of the first renovated castle in its collection.
Otium Studio also announced new ambitions: increasing its creation pace to 10 startups per year, up from 5 today.
Otium reaffirms its ambition to become one of the leading investment players in France and Europe, targeting €5 billion in assets by 2030. True to its mission—entreprendre avec audace—Otium intends to continue supporting the most ambitious entrepreneurs in building the leaders of tomorrow.
François Durvye, CEO of Otium:
“In a cautious market environment, Otium continues to actively allocate capital to attractive sectors and companies, enabling us to remain fully aligned with our 2030 ambitions. This first half of 2025 highlights the strength of our investment theses as well as the expertise and resilience of our teams, whom I wholeheartedly congratulate for their commitment. Otium is more committed than ever to building, alongside the entrepreneurs we support, the leaders of tomorrow in Europe and the United States.”
Otium is a long-term investment holding company founded in 2009 by Pierre Edouard Sterin. With €1.7 billion in assets as of June 30th, 2025, spread across more than 130 investments – including the Smartbox group and stakes in French unicorns PayFit and Owkin – Otium invests amounts ranging from a few hundred thousand euros to several tens of millions of euros. Companies are funded at every stage of their development, from seed funding to growth capital, and Otium takes either majority or minority stakes with no holding period constraints. Otium pursues a diversification strategy by financing projects in tech, industrials, leisure, healthcare, hospitality and real estate. Otium invested €255 million in 2024.
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